I'm totally confused now :) Do you want Apache to handle the UDP request as an HTTP request? Or do you want a UDP port that does something else?
First if you want a pool of UDP listeners, explore the MPM - it's the MPM's job to dispatch requests from TCP, so it would make sense to build upon another MPM to handle the connections. Second if you want to handle a protocol other than HTTP, see mod_echo as an example (trivial of course, just as the echo protocol is trivial.) Bill At 06:22 PM 2/4/2004, Matthew Gress wrote: >I am curious about what it would take to use an alternate protocol at layer 4 with >apache. > >>I have already posted to the users list and was referred here. >> >>Apache can communicate with several TCP protocols but I have a module >>project which needs UDP communications as well. I have searched the >>documentation, archives, and 2.0.48 HTTPD server source for this and all >>I find are references for beos, testcockets, LDAP, DNS lookups and some >>OS-related stuff regarding NIS. Oh yeah, and an old SSL exploit >>apparently made HTTPD open a UDP listener too... >> >>In any case, I have not found a reference to how to configure apache to >>do this and need to know where I should start to create or adapt for this >>functionality. >>We realized that we might have to code this personally to make this >>work, but would rather not if it is already in existence. >> >>Another question I have is, can we create a module that services UDP "connections" >>without >>hitting the cental apache server code. >> >>Thanks! >>Matthew Gress
